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To: Elmer who wrote (35362)	8/1/1998 12:39:00 AM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (1) of 1574198

Re: "My interpretation is that K7 will compete, but it will not be competitive with Willamette." How is AMD supposed to know the exact performance specifications of Willamette? Do you think they have a sample of Willamette and have benchmarked it against K7? Think again--not even Intel has Willamette silicon yet. AMD is only promising what they can realistically promise--that the K7 will be faster than ANY sixth generation processor, Intel or otherwise. Use your head. Kevin PS AMD stated: "K7 will outclass any current Intel design based on 6th generation PII, including XEON." I think the logical translation of this is that you have to compare processors of qual megahertz. Ifter all, if you overclock a Pentium MMX to 300 MHz and compare it to a 233 MHz PII, the Pentium MMX is faster. However, the PII DESIGN outclasses any 5th generation design available. Did you say you were an engineer?

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